Prince Charles forced to postpone his wedding for this overseas royal tour – but why?

Prince Charles, 70, has been married twice, with his current wife being Camilla Parker-Bowles. The pair said I Do in 2005, yet the ceremony itself wasn’t especially plain sailing. This was because the Queen’s eldest son was called upon to represent the crown in Rome – on the day they were due to marry. The last-minute change of plan meant the first in line to the throne had to take the lead.

Royal writer Kitty Kelley told of the unexpected disruption in her new book, The Royals.

Kitty wrote: “At the last minute the wedding was postponed by a day so Charles could fly to Rome to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II as the Queen’s representative.”

This was to be Charles’ second wedding.

He first married Princess Diana, the mother to his two sons, in 1981.

They divorced in 1996, just a year before her tragic death in a car crash.

Kitty went on to detail how the Queen consequently was not present at Charles’ later wedding.

She wrote: “Conscious of the Queen’s position as head of the Church of England, the palace announced she would not attend her son’s wedding, but she would attend his prayer service.

“On the other hand, Charles’ siblings, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward announced they would attend their brother’s wedding along with his sons, Princes William and Harry.”

Meanwhile, Express.co.uk previously reported Prince Charles’ “touching pledge” to Diana while on a trip in India.

In her book, Queen Elizabeth in our times, author Sarah Bradford detailed his touching sentiment when visiting the country’s epic monument, the Taj Mahal.

She followed up with a comment on the irony of the situation where Diana posed for a picture in the same spot as her then husband had, in a particularly thoughtful pose, in 1992.

She wrote of Charles’ behaviour: “Charles himself had given a hostage to fortune when, at the same site eight years earlier, he had declared that one day he would like to bring his wife there.”

It appears Charles kept true to his word, with the pair both heading to India in 1992.

Yet with apparent difficulties in their marriage beginning to show, it perhaps wasn’t the romantic trip Charles had envisaged.

Sarah added of Diana’s solo shot at the same spot: “In February, the couple had made an official visit to India which had featured the famous Princess Alone photograph of a pensive Diana seated in front of the Taj Mahal, the great romance monument built by Shah Jehan to the memory of his beloved wife.”

source: express.co.uk